The Unanswered Questions of Vladimir Putin

Putin evokes quite rightly this sort of disfactor of the 1917 revolution. He's saying this is how it went after the First World War. What happens next? Pragosian is not arrested. The charges are effectively dropped. Moscow, which has been put on security alert and the counter terrorist alert suddenly cancels it. Putin is nowhere to be seen again. So, in my mind, we're actually in a pause in a sort of hiatus, if you like. But for the moment anyway, it would appear that Mr. Putin looks pretty weak.